Celebrate
Nebraska’s 2019 Book Award Winners at November 9th Celebration
Celebrate Nebraska’s 2019 Book Award winners
with author readings and an awards presentation ceremony at the Nebraska
Center for the Book’s Celebration of Nebraska Books on November 9th
at the History Nebraska’s Nebraska History Museum, 131 Centennial Mall
North, in downtown Lincoln. Winners of the 2019 Nebraska Book Awards will be
honored and the celebration will include readings by some of the winning
authors, designers and illustrators of books with a Nebraska connection
published in 2018. And the winners are:
Children’s Picture Book: A is for Astronaut:
Blasting Through the Alphabet by Astronaut Clayton Anderson.
Illustrated by Scott Brundage. Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Young Adult: Squint by Chad Morris and Shelly
Brown. Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Cover/Design/Illustration: Portraits of the
Sandhills in Words and Watercolors by Richard Schilling. Publisher:
Chinook Wind Books
Fiction: Lost Creed by Alex Kava. Publisher:
Prairie Wind Publishing
Fiction Honor: The Sea of Grass: A Family Tale from
the American Heartland by Walter R. Echo-Hawk. Publisher: Fulcrum
Publishing
Nonfiction Environmental History: Flood on the
Tracks: Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin
by Todd M. Kerstetter. Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Nonfiction Essay: Five Plots by Erica Trabold.
Publisher: Seneca Review Books
Nonfiction Local History: Robber’s Cave: Truths,
Legends, Recollections by Joel Green. Publisher: Mighty’s Son
Publications
Nonfiction Nebraska as a Place: Portraits of the
Sandhills in Words and Watercolors by Richard Schilling. Publisher:
Chinook Wind Books
Poetry: The Woman in the Moon by Marjorie
Saiser. Publisher: The Backwaters Press
Poetry Honor: Where the Waters Take You by Neil
Harrison. Publisher: Pinyon Publishing
Poetry Honor: Landscapes, with Horses by Mark
Sanders and Charles D. Jones. Publisher: Stephen F. Austin State University
Press
The Celebration of Nebraska Books, free and open to the public, will also
honor winners of the 2019 Jane Geske and Mildred Bennett awards. The Mildred
Bennett Award recognizes individuals who have made a significant
contribution to fostering the literary tradition in Nebraska, reminding us
of the literary and intellectual heritage that enriches our lives and molds
our world. The Jane Geske Award is presented to a Nebraska organization for
exceptional contribution to literacy, books, reading, libraries, or
literature in Nebraska. It commemorates Geske’s passion for books, and was
established in recognition of her contributions to the well-being of the
libraries of Nebraska.
The 2019 One Book One Nebraska selection, This Blessed Earth: A Year
in the Life of an American Family Farm (W. W. Norton & Company) by Ted
Genoways will be featured in a keynote presentation.
The Nebraska Center for the Book Annual Meeting will be held at 1:30
p.m.—just prior to the 2:30-6:30 p.m. Celebration. An awards reception
honoring the winning authors, book signings, and introduction of the 2020
One Book One Nebraska book choice will conclude the festivities.
The Celebration of Nebraska Books is sponsored by Nebraska Center for the
Book and the Nebraska Library Commission, with support from History
Nebraska’s Nebraska History Museum. Humanities Nebraska provides support for
One Book One Nebraska. The Nebraska Center for the Book is housed at the
Nebraska Library Commission and brings together the state’s readers,
writers, booksellers, librarians, publishers, printers, educators, and
scholars to build the community of the book, supporting programs to
celebrate and stimulate public interest in books, reading, and the written
word. The Nebraska Center for the Book is supported by the national Center
for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Nebraska Library Commission.
As the state library agency, the Nebraska Library Commission is an
advocate for the library and information needs of all Nebraskans. The
mission of the Library Commission is statewide promotion, development, and
coordination of library and information services, “bringing together people
and information.”
###
The most up-to-date news releases from the Nebraska Library Commission
are always available on the Library Commission website,
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/publications/newsreleases.